The Salem High School boys’ basketball team took their loss in the championship game of the First Harrison Bank Holiday Tournament out on Madison on Dec. 28. The Lions not only beat the visiting Cubs, they blew them out, 104-75, setting a school record for most points scored in a game. The previous record was 102 and was set in 1988.

An autopsy was performed at the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Office in Louisville, on Lily Calvin, a five month old female from Salem. Lily’s parents are Joshua Calvin and Jessica (White) Calvin. The autopsy was unable to determine a cause of death. The autopsy will not be complete until the toxicology results return which typically take up to six weeks.

On December 29, at approximately 9:28 p.m., Officers from the Indiana State Police and the Washington County Sheriff’s Department attempted to serve several Felony and Misdemeanor arrest warrants on a suspect identified as Billy D. McKinney 38, at a residence located at 9908 Cedar Lane in Hardinsburg, Indiana.

Of the 14 traffic accidents that the Scott County Sheriff’s Department has investigated since December 12, thankfully only three have involved injuries to drivers. The first injury accident reported to the department occurred at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday, December 15. The location to which Deputy Mark Hays was sent was 200 feet west of Whitsitt Road on State Road 256 East. Driver Jeffrey W. Tackett, 53, Belleville, Mi, told the officer that had been westbound on S.R. 56 when a deer crossed his driving lane. He swerved to miss the animal and ran his 1994 Peterbilt tractor-trailer rig onto the north side of the highway.

A Clark County man apparently traveled north to Scottsburg to commit suicide on Tuesday, December 7, in a local motel’s swimming pool. Jeffrey “Jeff” Howard Vaughn, 49, Clarksville, was pronounced dead at the scene around 11 p.m. that Tuesday by Scott County Coroner Kevin Collins.